Page 4/The Battalion/Wednesday, February 1, 1984
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Animal welfare activist
urges officials to act
Warped
United Press International
MIDLAND — A federal
judge’s refusal to assume juris
diction in a case involving dying
horses in central Texas indi
cated the need for state officials
to get involved, a animal protec
tion spoke woman said.
Ingrid Newkirk, director of
People for Ethical Treatment of
Animals in Washington D.C.,
said during a telephone inter
view that her primary concern
was to convince Gov. Mark
White and the Texas attorney
general’s office to act.
Her comment came after
U.S. District Judge Lucius Bun-
ton of Midland told an attorney
for two other Washington-based
animal groups to file their re
quests with the state district
court in Falls County.
Bunion said federal court did
not havejurisdiction in the case.
Attorneys for the American
Horse Protection Association
and the Fund for Animals had
asked for a temporary restrain
ing order to ensure food and
care for the animals.
Animal welfare activists have
said horses brought to Texas as
part of a commerical venture
gone bust were starving. Russ
Caspar of the AHPA said the
two groups had asked to be
appointed guardians of the
horses.
The two groups also asked
that a Texas A&M University
veterinarian be appointed to
oversee care of the horses, which
are on private property. Falls
County ranchers have sought a
grand jury investigation of
Horses Unlimited.
The company sold the horses
to ranchers who were to fatten
the animals and then sell them
Company sues to halt takeovei
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Caspar was enroute back to
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"comment, a spokeswoman for
his office said.
“Our position or course is that
the governor could act and
needs to act. The state attorney
general needs to appoint a spe
cial prosecutor,” Newkirk said.
Texas law gives state officials
the right to send veterinarians
onto private property to care for
neglected animals, she said,
adding her organization had
both phoned and written state
officials.
“I would think there is prob
ably more foot dragging in Au
stin than we have seen up here
for a long time,” Newkirk said.
“I’m hoping that any minute
now some political impetus will
impel them to move.
She said her organization had
spent $ 14,000 in the case since it
got involved on Jan. 16.
United Press International
HOUSTON — Houston
Natural Gas Corp., in a double-
barreled offensive to prevent a
takeover by The Coastal Corp.,
Tuesday filed a lawsuit to halt
Coastal’s purchase of its stock
and counter-offered to buy out
standing shares of Coastal’s
common stock.
A spokesman for Coastal said
the firm had no immediate com
ment on HNC’s actions.
“The HNC board is deter
mined to take all appropriate
steps to prevent Coastal from
taking control of HNC and to
protect the interest of HNC, the
HNC shareholders, the em
ployees, customers and sup
pliers of HNC, the communities
it serves and indeed, the state of
Texas,” said M.D. Matthews,
Chairman of HNC, a Houston-
based Texas gas distributor.
“It is unfortunate that Coastal
launched its hostile offer for
HNC without even having had
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Matthews said.
Coastal’s subsidiary, Colora
do Interstate Co., Friday mailed
a offer directly to HNC share
holders with the goal of pur
chasing 45 percent of the firm’s
outstanding stock at $68 a share.
CIG already owned about 5 per
cent.
“If our businesses are to be
combined, we believe that it is in
the best interest of our sharehol
ders that the combination take
place on the basis that we prop
ose, rather than under Coastal’s
coercive and deceptive two-tier
offer in which Coastal’s banks
On Tuesday, HNC filed a
federal lawsuit against Colorado
Interstate, Coastal and Coastal
Chairman Oscar Wyatt seeking
an injunction to prevent the de
fendants from acquiring or
attempting to acquire any shares
of HNC’s common stock.
In its offer, HNC offered to
buy any and all shares of Coas
tal’s common stock for $42 per
share, effective Wednesday.
The offer was scheduled to ex
pire Feb. 29.
The action was authorized
during a two-day meeting of
HNC’s board of directors, which
rejected Coastal’s offer.
are acting as co-venturers,
Matthews said.
HNC’s board of directors said
it expects Coastal’s offer to be
the first step of a two-step
takeover in which the remaining
share of HNC might be purch
ased at a price lower than $68 a
share.
lawsuit alleged the
“co-bidders” with
HNC in violation oftkl
York Banking Law ami
laws.
HNC’s lawsuit allege
tal’s takeover attempi
federal securities laws
Coastal illegally failedtoi
other numerous
ing to the coastal offer
“HNG customers, mi
Coastal’s history of perto
f.iilures under its gas sale Luis
ments, wilj look to HNC
petitors for their gas sun ,vei1
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In its federal lawsuit, HNC
alleges that Citibank and Bank
ers Trust Co., by virtue of “high
ly unusual terms of their credit
agreement” with Coastal, have
acquired a beneficial economic
interest in HNC shares owned
by Coastal as well as control over
the terms of both the Coastal
offer and any “second step mer
ger” transaction. As a result, the
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remaining publicshareki
an HNG statement said
Wellington Osteil
spokesman for Coasu
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any statement untilCfl^ide
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Reporter |
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wave, those inside tanl:I
Lou, head of iheDej*!
of Ocean Engineering
centrating on tanktmi§
for good reason: theyo
serious accidents.
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Lou says.
Lou has used mai
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small tanks to sl«
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Part of the solution,
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